Former Bidsson CEO Albert Liske fired new accusations against Bidify this week, claiming the penny auction platform Bidsson manipulated its auction results. Liske alleged that an analysis of Bidsson's backend data from August 2012 revealed an alarming number of "company won" auctions. The accusations center on the legitimacy of the Bidsson penny auction, which Bidify uses as its MLM business opportunity.
Screenshots of the Bidsson penny auction MySQL database supported Liske's claims. He stated that by August 2012, only "a few hundred" products had shipped from 4853 reported won auctions on the platform.
Liske's team, then responsible for Bidsson's shipping, investigated the discrepancy. They found many top affiliates had not received their won products. And gold bars even went missing from the Norway shipping office. Their internal review showed less than 100 products actually shipped from the "few hundred" paid auctions. Many of these shipped items lacked proper accounting in the Norway office. Despite these issues, Bidsson's official records listed 268 shipped products.
Bidify offered a cash-out option for won products. Liske initially considered that many un-shipped items might have been converted to cash by the winners. However, the Bidsson database showed only 1862 auctions resulted in a cash-out, referred to as a "sell back."
Liske calculated that 1862 cash-outs combined with 268 shipped products totaled 2130 fulfilled auctions. This left 2723 auctions unaccounted for from the original 4853. He alleges Bidsson admin staff, using illegitimate accounts, won these remaining auctions.
Liske plans a further update. He intends to cross-reference IP addresses from Bidify office workers, including "Hanns," found in admin logs with user login IP addresses from Bidsson bidding accounts. The PHP Penny Auction software logs administrative and user IP addresses for every login. This data could show Bidsson administrators logging into fake user accounts to place bids.
Repeated appearances of Bidify office IP addresses on bidding account logins would indicate Bidify manipulated its Bidsson penny auctions. Liske called this potential revelation "the smoking gun." He argued administrators cannot log into user accounts and deploy auto-bidders unless they are bidding against genuine users. He has so far delivered on his claims of providing evidence.
